2. Reuters multi-award winning photographers are celebrated
here in a retrospective on the 30th anniversary of the
service's launch.
Note: Some images may offend the sensibilities
Reuters: 30 Years of Pictures

3. Frantic Kurdish refugees struggle for a loaf of bread during a humanitarian aid distribution at the Iraqi-Turkish border, April 5, 1992. Yannis
Behrakis: At the end of the first Iraq war about 1.5 million Kurds were fleeing in panic trying to escape from forces loyal to Saddam Hussein.
About 600,000 of them fled to Turkey but half of them were stranded in the mountains at the Iraqi-Turkish border.

4. An opposition supporter holds up a laptop showing images of celebrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square, after Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak
resigned, February 11, 2011. Dylan Martinez: I was lucky enough to be sent to Egypt in 2011 for what became known as the Facebook
Revolution. Thousands of Egyptians had taken to the streets to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.

5. A would-be immigrant crawls on the beach after his arrival on a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach in Spain's Canary Island of
Fuerteventura, May 5, 2006. Juan Medina: I heard about a makeshift boat carrying migrants from Africa was on its way to the beach at Gran
Tarajal, south of the island of Fuerteventura so I rushed there.

6. A Russian police officer carries a released baby from a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the
province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 2, 2004. Viktor Korotayev:. The Beslan school siege took place on September 1, 2004
during a festive ceremony to launch the new academic year at school No.1

7. Petrol sprays on the Formula One racing car of Netherland's Jas Verstappen seconds before the car and the crew of Benetton Ford caught on
fire during refueling at the German F-1 Grand Prix in Hockenheim, July 31, 1994. Joachim Herrmann: I was covering the F1 race in Hockenheim,
Germany and was one of the photographers on the pit wall during the race.

8. Sgt. William Olas Bee, a U.S. Marine from the
24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call
after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser
in Helmand Province of Afghanistan, May 18,
2008. Goran Tomasevic

9. Rescue workers carry fatally injured New York City Fire Department Chaplain, Fether Mychal Judge, from one of the World Trade Center towers
in New York, September 11, 2001. Shannon Stapleton

10. An Albanian man carries a child to a US Marine CH53 Super Stallion helicopter as it lands at Golame beach near the port of Durres, March 16,
1997. Yannis Behrakis

11. Oil fire fighters from Boots and Coots try to
put out an oil well fire in Al-Ahmadi where
retreating Saddam Hussein forces had set fire
to the oil wells, Kuwait, March 30, 1991.
Russell Boyce

12. Opponents of Israel's disengagement plan from Gaza scream as they speak with a special evacuation policeman after the forces took over the
roof top of the synagogue in the Jewish Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif settlements bloc, August 18, 2005. Nir Elias: One of
the most hardcore spots of "resistance" against the forces coming to evacuate the settlers was this settlement called Kfar Darom.

13. Unidentified bodies lie on a street in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip, March 6, 2003. Ahmed Jadallah: I was with a Reuters
multimedia team to cover incursion a big Israeli incursion to the Gaza Strip.

14. Beach goers sunbathe behind a wall of hay
bales, used to absorb any oil that might come
ashore, on Dauphin Island, Alabama, May 11,
2010. Brian Snyder: I was in Alabama and
Mississippi covering the BP oil spill and took
this image while in a helicopter with the
Alabama Army National Guard.

15. The Northern Lights are seen above the ash plume of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the evening, April 22, 2010.. Lucas Jackson: The ash
cloud brought the greatest disruption to European air travel since World War Two, and the only way to get to Iceland was to fly from North
America

16. A woman cries as she cannot find her 4-year-old daughter and husband on the top of the ruins of a destroyed school in earthquake-hit Beichuan
county, Sichuan province, May 17, 2008. Jason Lee: It was the fifth day since the deadly Sichuan Earthquake shook southwestern China.

17. A Turkish riot policeman uses tear gas as people protest
against the destruction of trees in a park brought about by
a pedestrian project, in Taksim Square in central Istanbul,
May 28, 2013. Osman Orsal: I was covering protests in
Istanbul which began as a demonstration against
government plans to demolish a small park in central
Taksim square but evolved into one the biggest anti-
government protests in over a decade.

18. Staff members stand in a meeting room at
Lehman Brothers offices in the financial
district of Canary Wharf in London,
September 11, 2008. Kevin Coombs: This
is a very simple story. This photo was shot
from the fourth floor newsroom at our
offices in Canary Wharf, the heart of
London's financial district. I was working
on the pictures desk when I noticed three
or four journalists looking out of the
window.

19. A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori, Georgia, August 9, 2008. Gleb Garanich:. I was about to
head off on a fishing holiday when my boss called proposing that I head off to cover the unfolding conflict between Georgia and Russia.

20. Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of their comrade Alex Mashavisky at a cemetery in Beersheba, Israel, January 7, 2009. Eric Gaillard: I
was in Israel to help out the Reuters Jerusalem office during the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in January 2009.

21. A man clings to the top of a vehicle before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard from the flooded streets of New Orleans, in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, in Louisiana, September 4, 2005. Robert Galbraith: I arrived in New Orleans three days after the hurricane struck, and was
flown via a Coast Guard four-seat airplane from Alexander, Louisiana to the U.S.

22. Kenji Nagai of APF lies dying after police and military officials fired on him in Yangon, September 27, 2007. Adrees Latif: I was covering the
"Saffron Revolution" in Myanmar where rising fuel prices ignited protests.

23. Bucharest's residents protect themselves from the crossfire during clashes in the Republican square in Bucharest, Romania, December 23,
1989. Charles Platiau: On December 22 1989, my mind was still full of memories of covering the fall of the Berlin Wall.

24. Romanian parents carry a small casket and cross as they arrive at a Bucharest hospital to collect the body of their dead baby who died of AIDS,
February 6, 1990. Radu Sigheti: I found out that there is a ward at a hospital in Bucharest where children with HIV positive were hospitalised.

25. Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan Coyer, who served with the U.S. Army in both Iraq
and Afghanistan, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, March 11, 2013. Coyer died of complications from an injury sustained in Afghanistan.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

26. Protestors hold signs behind Richard Fuld, Chairman and Chief Executive of Lehman Brothers Holdings, as he takes his seat to testify at a
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the causes and effects of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, on Capitol Hill in
Washington, October 6, 2008.
Jonathan Ernst

27. An injured child receives medical treatment after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, January 13, 2010. The 7.0 magnitude quake rocked Haiti,
killing thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for
international help. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

28. Marooned flood victims try to grab onto the side bars of a hovering army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of
Pakistan's Punjab province, August 7, 2010. Pakistanis desperate to get out of flooded villages threw themselves at helicopters as more heavy rain was
expected to intensify both suffering and anger with the government. The disaster killed more than 1,600 people and disrupted the lives of 12 million.
REUTERS/Adrees Latif

29. A Lebanese man shouts for help for a wounded
man near the site of a car bomb explosion in
Beirut, February 14, 2005. A massive car bomb
killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik al-
Hariri on Beirut's waterfront, witnesses and
security sources said. At least eight others, some
of them his bodyguards, also died.
REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

30. A mourner wearing a mask to ward off SARS hides under an umbrella during the funeral of SARS doctor Tse Yuen-man in Hong Kong, May 22,
2003. Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused 774 deaths in multiple countries with the majority
of cases in Hong Kong, according to the World Health Organization. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

31. A U.S. soldier of 2-12 Infantry 4BCT-4ID Task Force Mountain Warrior takes a break during a night mission near Honaker Miracle camp at the
Pesh valley of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, August 12, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

32. U.S. Marine Corp Assaultman Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad in this April 9,
2003 file photo. U.S. troops pulled down a 20-foot high statue of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad and Iraqis danced on it in
contempt for the man who ruled them with an iron grip for 24 years. In scenes reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Iraqis earlier took
a sledgehammer to the marble plinth under the statue of Saddam.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

33. China's national flag is raised during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium, August 8, 2008.
REUTERS/Jerry Lampen

34. U.S. President George W. Bush hands back a
crying baby that was handed to him from the
crowd as he arrived for an outdoor dinner with
German Chancellor Angela Merkel in
Trinwillershagen, Germany, July 13, 2006.
REUTERS/Jim Bourg

35. A man rinses soot from his face at the scene of a gas pipeline explosion near Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, Nigeria, December 26, 2006.
REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

36. U.S. President Ronald Reagan shakes
hands at his first meeting with Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev to sign an
arms treaty in Geneva, November 19,
1985. The two leaders met for the first
time to hold talks on international
diplomatic relations and the arms race.
REUTERS/Stringer

37. Nelson Mandela, accompanied by his wife Winnie,
walks out of the Victor Verster prison near Cape
Town after spending 27 years in apartheid jails,
February 11, 1990. REUTERS/Ulli Michel

38. An Indian woman mourns the death of her relative who was killed in the tsunami in Cuddalore, south of the southern Indian city of Madras,
December 28, 2004. The South East Asia Tsunami killed 230,000 people in 14 countries. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded
history. Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. REUTERS/Arko Datta

39. Sprinter Ben Johnson wins the gold medal in the 100m sprint at the Seoul Olympics, September 24, 1988. Behind him are (L to R) Calvin Smith,
Linford Christie and Carl Lewis. Johnson later lost the medal when he tested positive for steroids. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

40. Palestinians try to run away from
Israeli soldiers firing teargas during
Palestinian-Israeli clashes in the
southern Gaza Strip town of Khan
Younis, October 20, 2000.
REUTERS/Reinhard Krause

41. Flames come out of the Air France Concorde seconds before it crashed in Gonesse near Paris Roissy airport, July 25, 2000. All one hundred
passengers and nine crew members on board the flight died. On the ground, four people were killed and one critically injured. REUTERS/Andras
Kisgergely

42. A body is removed from the wreckage after a bomb went off in Nairobi, August 7, 1998. The bomb, which killed more than 250 people and injured
5,000, was aimed at the U.S. embassy. It destroyed a neighboring building and badly damaged the embassy. REUTERS/George Mulala

43. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev
congratulates East German Leader Erich
Honecker with a kiss after Honecker's re-
election as General Secretary of the
Communist Party Congress in East Berlin,
April 21, 1986. REUTERS/Stringer

44. The fingers of malnourished one-year-old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding
clinic in the town of Tahoua in northwestern Niger, during a drought, August 1, 2005. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

45. Diana Princess of Wales cradles a young child
stricken with cancer during a show at the
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital in
Lahore, Pakistan, February 22, 1997.
REUTERS/John Pryke

46. A demonstrator pounds away at the Berlin Wall as
East Berlin border guards look on from above the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, November 11, 1989.
REUTERS/David Brauchli

47. A man stands in front of a convoy of tanks
in the Avenue of Eternal Peace in
Tiananmen Square in Beijing, June 5,
1989. REUTERS/Arthur Tsang

48. The bomb damaged area of the City of London, after two blasts ripped through the buildings in the area,April 24, 1993. Dozens of people were
injured in the blast caused by IRA bombs. REUTERS/Andre Camara

49. Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian
border on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate, in Iraq, August 11, 2014.
REUTERS/Rodi Said

50. Rebel fighters jump away from shrapnel during heavy shelling by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi near Bin Jawad, in Libya,
March 6, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

51. Bodies of people activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region are seen in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, August 21,
2013. Syrian activists said at least 213 people, including women and children, were killed in a nerve gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad's
forces on rebel-held districts of the Ghouta region, east of Damascus. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

52. A Haitian suspected of being a multiple assassin for exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas party is detained in Petit Goave, Haiti,
March 3, 2004. The man was detained by armed citizens of Petit Goave who proceeded to stone him and then burn him alive. REUTERS/Daniel
Aguilar

53. A young Rwandan refugee who travelled from Bukavu with several thousand others shivers in the early morning before getting back on the road,
in Democratic Republic Congo, November 30, 1996. He was part of a group of some 20,000 refugees, many suffering from disease and
malnutrition, who had made their way into Goma after being on the road for over one month. REUTERS/Corinne Dufka

54. An ethnic Albanian woman feeds her baby as
she and another 2,000 refugees, displaced by
the war in Kosovo, are allowed to enter
Macedonia in the mountainous region near the
border crossing of Blace, March 30, 1999. The
refugees were blocked by the Macedonian army
for several hours and spent the night in the
forest, but were later allowed to enter after
UNHCR officials put pressure on the
Macedonian government. REUTERS/Damir

55. Officials in protective gear check for signs of radiation on children who are
from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in
Koriyama, Japan, March 13, 2011. The biggest earthquake to hit Japan on
record struck the northeast coast, triggering a tsunami that swept away
everything in its path, including houses, ships, cars and farm buildings and
caused the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

56. U.S. President Bill Clinton looks on as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat shake
hands after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord at the White House, September 13, 1993. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

57. An injured soccer fan is carried to safety by a friend after a wall collapsed during violence between fans before the European Cup final between
Juventus and Liverpool at the Heysel stadium in Brussels, May 29, 1985. 39 people died, and a further 600 were injured. REUTERS/Nick Didlick

58. A picture of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung decorates a building in the capital Pyongyang, early October 5, 2011. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj